Just finished many gallons of each cocktail we are serving at Tiki Caliente! Try "Jeannie's Wish" and "Coconut Mele." And if you own or buy one of our limited Moai Mugs, you can try our very tasty secret drink!

Now doesn't this look like fun! I have had a blast organizing the room crawl this year. We have new mixers and seasoned cocktail masters showing off over a dozen cocktails. See you at the crawl and room parties! Tip your bartender.

A big mahalo to all who attended and hosted the room crawl at the event. This was the first year that Zen Tiki Lounge has organized the crawl and we had a blast doing. Tasting drinks from the newcomers and the veterans was a pleasure. Over Friday and Saturday we tried 18 cocktails, visited 12 rooms and met great people. Can't wait to start planning the next event.

Room crawls were awesome!! Like to give a shout out to The agents of H.U.L.A for a great Harvey Wallbanger and your dancer was stellar dancing to the Ghastly Ones. _________________A.K.A THE MADMAN!! Long live the TIKI-TI. I'll have another green lizard please!

And thanks to the other generous crawlers who stopped by our room to try the Chief Kopi Kopi. Hopefully you also snagged the recipe postcard - #1 in a new series (check the "cancelation" on the postcard's stamp if you have one). Collect them all and relish that you have a number 1! Thank you Tonga Tom for designing the card, and to Eric October and Sherriyaki for their suggestions on the layout (hope I am not forgetting anyone but that project started in a bar and the memories are a bit murky).

Special thanks to professional TC lurkers Val and Karen: without them you'd still be in line for your cocktail because I'd be trying to ice, dispense, shake, pour, and garnish 100 cocktails by myself.

On 2013-05-21 09:47, PiPhiRho wrote:Soaking the garnish in orange flower water... that is inspired! Excellent drink.

Thank you! And congrats on your cocktail; it was great.

That reminds me - as a tip to crawl hosts: make sure you have a designated drink runner to help you taste other hosts' cocktails. You're likely to be busy preparing your own cocktail for an hour or more before you host. That may conflict with the crawl schedule. Pass some tip money to a friend and ask them to help get that cocktail for you so you can sample it while you prep (thanks Kim!). Without help I'd have missed 2 cocktails on the crawl.